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- Title
THE FUTURE OF TEACHING IN A SCIENTIFIC AGE.
- Authors
Buell, Robert R.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the challenges faced by classroom teachers of secondary schools in the U.S. brought about by the scientific age. Such tremendous challenges include the impact of the knowledge explosion upon curriculum, curricular materials, teachers' devices for instruction and the whole application of the technological world to the learning process. Examining those challenges yields that there are complete knowledge in the form of books, journals and magazines coming out today, all carrying possible revision materials to be integrated into the curriculum. Then there is the revolution from agrarian to urban civilization by which there are no historical guidelines for what to teach and how to teach. Lastly, the cultural blindness, the blindness of the cultures of the present time by which teachers faced in the futures of teaching.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TEACHERS; SECONDARY education; TEACHING aids; INSTRUCTIONAL systems; TEACHING; CURRICULUM; EFFECT of technological innovations on education; LEARNING
- Publication
Science Education, 1969, Vol 53, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730530117